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The extant Dharmasutras are written in concise sutra format, [23] with a very terse incomplete sentence structure which are difficult to understand and leave much to the reader to interpret. [19] The Dharmasastras are derivative works on the Dharmasutras, using a shloka (four 8-syllable verse style chandas poetry, Anushtubh meter), which are ...
Manusmriti then lays out the laws of just war, stating that first and foremost, war should be avoided by negotiations and reconciliations. [ 54 ] [ 55 ] If war becomes necessary, states Manusmriti, a soldier must never harm civilians, non-combatants or someone who has surrendered, that use of force should be proportionate, and other rules. [ 54 ]
The History of Dharmaśāstra, with a subtitle "Ancient and Medieval Religious and Civil Law in India", is a monumental seven-volume work consisting of around 6,500 pages.
The Vishnu Smriti is divided into one hundred chapters, consisting mostly of prose text but including one or more verses at the end of each chapter. The premise of the narration is a frame story dialogue between the god Vishnu and the goddess Earth . This frame story remains present throughout the text, unlike many Dharmaśāstras where the ...
In the post-Vedic period, the varna division is described in the Mahabharata, Puranas and in the Dharmashastra literatures. [11] The commentary on the Varna system in the Manusmriti is often cited. [12] Counter to these textual classifications, many Hindu texts and doctrines question and disagree with the Varna system of social classification. [13]
Varying arguments have been made and evidences cited but no decisive conclusions have been made. The best timeframe which can be provided is somewhere between 100BCE and 400CE. [11] In 1876 manuscript D of the Nāradasmṛti was translated by the German scholar, Julius Jolly, making it available to legal scholars in Europe for the first time ...
Several ancient commentaries were written on this Dharmasūtra, but only one by Haradatta named ' Ujjvalā ' has survived into the modern era. [ 17 ] [ 38 ] Haradatta, possibly from South India and one who lived in 12th- or 13th-century commented on the praśnas of Āpastamba Gṛhyasūtra as well as Gautama's Dharmasūtra.
Vashishta Dharmasutra is an ancient legal text, and one of the few Dharma-related treatises which has survived into the modern era. This Dharmasūtra (300–100 BCE) forms an independent text and other parts of the Kalpasūtra, that is Shrauta and Grihya-sutras are missing. [1]